War/Peace
 

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Useful Sites
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) Iraq Occupation Watch
Antiwar.com Juan Cole
Buddhist Peace Group Middle East Research and Information Project
Campus Action Monbiot, George
Center for Economic and Social Rights MoveOn.org Democracy in Action
Center for Public Integrity The Nation
Common Dreams National Priorities Project Database
Democracy Now Noam Chomsky
Electronic Iraq Open Secrets
Foreign Policy in Focus Robert Fisk
Global Peace Index Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Guardian (UK) TruthOut
Independent (UK) United for Peace and Justice
Institute for Policy Studies War Photos
Inter Press Service Z-Net
Iranians for Peace  
 
Economic Issues
Linda Bilmes: "The $10 Trillion Hangover: Paying the Price for Eight Years of Bush"
The Economic Costs of the Iraq/Afghanistan Wars, Congressional Budget Office (October 2007)
The Economic Costs of the Iraq War, Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz [check under "The Iraq War"]
The Iraq Quagmire: The Mounting Costs of War and the Case for Bringing Home the Troops
"Behind the Invasion of Iraq."  Research Unit of Political Economy, Mumbai
"War with Iraq:  Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives."  This includes Professor Nordhaus's article on "The Economic Consequences of War with Iraq."
"The Thirty-Year Itch." This Mother Jones article discusses the role of oil as a strategic commodity.
"The Unbearable Costs of Empire."  James K. Galbraith
"Assessments of the likely humanitarian and economic consequences of war on Iraq"
"War will hit markets hard, warns IMF."  Larry Elliott, The Guardian, UK
 
Other Aspects of the Issue
"Understanding the U.S.-Iraq Crisis:  A Primer."  Phyllis Bennis
"Why Another War? A Backgrounder on the Iraq Crisis, 2nd Ed."  MERIP [Middle East Research and Information Project]
"Only in America."  Norman Mailer, The New York Review of Books, March 27, 2003
List of UN Security Council resolutions vetoed by the U.S. since 1972

 

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